On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:25 +0200, M9. wrote: > We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ > Partition Magic was not so bad at all. > I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too > change the sizes of existing partitions.
I would suggest using LVM! > Now, one has too back-up his/her home, throw away all partitions, and > start all over again. What's wrong with that? > More logic would be: Load the files nessesary to create what is needed > first, (the room for the system, and i am still convinced, that there > are seperate partitions needed, for: /boot,/,/opt,/usr,/var, (and evt > /tmp), swap, and /home.) and then, one should be able to change sizes, > without having to delete /home. The systems i have to manage, have seperate /boot (normally not mounted) /usr and /opt (both mounted RO), seperate /tmp, /var, /var/log, /srv, /tmp and /home. > It must be possible to reduce the size of /home, if more room for fi: > /boot, /usr, and/or /var is needed. Create them at minimum, and resize them when needed > > I realy mean that it is totaly anoying, not being able to change your > available room, without spending hours to back-up the data you want to > save.. As said, use LVM with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount them for shrinking > I simply can not understand that nobody else finds this nessesary. (Some people only create root-partition and root-user ;-() > > > Have a nice day, > Same to you, Final remark, for small partitions (<100MB) use ext3, not reiserfs And for those that never change (usr, opt) journaling is not needed. -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
